Danela Butler,17, Kwame Kang,15, and Jordan Leonard, 16, participants in the Black Achievers Program at the Meredith Mathews East Madison YMCA practice a dance they choreographed ... at the first session of this years Black Achievers Program....
Photo by Susan Fried

The Commission on African American Affairs focused on alarming new statistics on the persistent problems of unequal treatment, and the need to mobilize action to address the issues they raised at their meeting last week....

The Burke Museum has partnered with Pacific Science Center to present a series of lectures inspired by Pacific Science Center's featured exhibit – "Lucy's Legacy: The Hidden Treasures of Ethiopia." The lecture series, "Lucy Talks," brings five experts in the fields of human evolutionary studies, forensic anthropology and fossil conservation to speak...

Leslie Jones, diversity manager for Sound Transit, will speak at the Community Coalition for Contracts and Jobs meeting at 6 p.m. on Oct. 21, at the Central Area Motivation Program, 722 18th Ave. in Central Seattle. Sound Transit is in the process of bidding the initial phases of the University Link sector of the light rail project.....

WASHINGTON (NNPA) - As the Black unemployment rate leaped another eight percentage points last…

Gathering together some of the city's best talent, dirty girl productions presents "Hot Grits"..."It's a concept band," McCloud says. The band itself is actually fictional; the women play and write their own songs and they play their own music, but they're within character....

A new online course will help small businesses explore exporting opportunities in international markets.  Global Enterprise: A Primer on Exporting is a free, self-paced course....

October 7-26, Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center, 104 17th Ave. S.

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Some years, the ballot seems almost dull – not much of interest, not many intelligent choices. However, from Washington D.C. to the halls of the state Capitol in Salem, this year's elections are ready for the history books. The many ballot measures Oregon voters face are rigged with tricky language and unexplained long-term consequences, demanding a closer look....